Scalar Mesons a0(1450) and sigma(600) from Lattice QCD
Abstract
We study the a0 and sigma mesons with the overlap fermion in the chiral regime with the pion mass as low as 182 MeV in the quenched approximation. After the eta'pi ghost states are separated, we find that the a0 mass with q\bar{q} interpolation field to be almost independent of the quark mass in the region below the strange quark mass. The chirally extrapolated results are consistent with a0(1450) being the u\bar{d} meson and K0*(1430) being the u\bar{s} meson with calculated masses at 1.42+_0.13 GeV and 1.41+_ 0.12 GeV respectively. We also calculate the scalar mesonium with a tetraquark interpolation field. In addition to the two pion scattering states, we find a state at around 550 MeV. Through the study of volume dependence, we confirm that this state is a one-particle state, in contrast to the two-pion scattering states. This suggests that the observed state is a tetraquark mesonium which is quite possibly the sigma(600) meson.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0607110,
title = {Scalar Mesons a0(1450) and sigma(600) from Lattice QCD},
author = {Nilmani Mathur and A. Alexandru and Y. Chen and S. J. Dong and T. Draper and I. Horvath and F. X. Lee and K. F. Liu and S. Tamhankar and J. B. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0607110},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D